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'We're a culture, not a costume' this Halloween
CNN ^ | October 26, 2011 | Emanuella Grinberg

Posted on 10/26/2011 11:21:29 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

(CNN) -- Thinking about donning a kimono to dress like a geisha for Halloween, or a Mexican mariachi suit?

Students from Ohio University have a message for you: "We're a culture, not a costume."

With ethnic and racial stereotypes becoming increasingly popular Halloween costume themes, members of the school's Students Teaching About Racism in Society are launching a campaign to make revelers think twice before reducing a culture to a caricature, the group's president said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cultures; halloween
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To: Immerito

Hmmm....that explains why my goats have been huddling in their goat house in a decidedly conspiratorial manner.

[but what of the Pythons...informants?!?]


41 posted on 10/26/2011 8:05:19 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: Immerito; MeganC

Meat is meat and dogs can digest rotten carrion.

:)


42 posted on 10/26/2011 8:06:02 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: Immerito
No...*this* is cruelty to Dobermanns.

....:-P

43 posted on 10/26/2011 8:09:06 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

OU the #1 party school in Amertca.


44 posted on 10/26/2011 8:12:20 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: Salamander

“Perhaps if I lie perfectly still, she’ll have pity on me.”

Maybe that should be the theme of the next Freepathon—donate or the doberman gets it. ;-)

“Open your wallet or the doberman gets a wallop.”


45 posted on 10/26/2011 8:47:02 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: ConservativeStatement
According to the Department of Cultural Awareness, cannibal or zombie costumes are no longer acceptable.

The department made a statement last week, revealing the zombie and cannibal communities have sought restraining orders against several major costume manufactures in California, in an effort to avoid stereotyping minority cultures.

46 posted on 10/26/2011 8:55:40 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Salamander

Obviously. They “keep it on the down low” quite literally.

:-)


47 posted on 10/26/2011 9:09:32 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Oztrich Boy
1. Snookie is Chilean.

2. Guidos are not, and have never been, cool.

3. Only one person on that stupid show is from NJ.

48 posted on 10/26/2011 9:20:47 PM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: Immerito
Shhhhhh......it'ssssss a sssssssssssssssssecret......


49 posted on 10/27/2011 12:18:58 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: Immerito; TheOldLady

Hey TOL!

There’s yer next FReepathon “donate-or-else!” threat post idea....LOL


50 posted on 10/27/2011 12:21:20 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Students. Get over yourselves, you ignorant fools. Sit down and shut your yaps and open your eyes and ears for ten years or so until you unlearn all the marxist propaganda you’ve been lapping up like cyanide-laced kool-aid all the years of your so-called “education.”

Seriously, you don’t know a damn thing that’s worth knowing.


51 posted on 10/27/2011 4:00:30 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: NavyCanDo

Your post is worthless without pictures. ;-p


52 posted on 10/27/2011 4:31:29 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Salamander



Many thanks to Salamander and Odhinn

Click the pic and donate
or the Doberman gets it!

53 posted on 10/27/2011 5:04:18 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: KarlInOhio
Ah, well let's hope the yoots don't wear togas while they are killing brain cells.
54 posted on 10/27/2011 6:35:52 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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